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\opening{Dear editor of the AI Journal Competition Section,}

Included with this letter is the resubmission of manuscript ARTINT-D-14-00157
``ASlib: A Benchmark Library for Algorithm Selection''. The original submission
of this manuscript was for the Artificial Intelligence Journal Special Issue on
Combining Constraint Solving and Learning. The reviewers felt that the paper
could not be accepted as a standard contribution to the journal as it does not
pass the originality criteria. However, the editor in chief, Rina Dechter,
encouraged us to resubmit to the Competition Section, as a standardized
environment for the comparison of different approaches would be a valuable
service to the community and can have significant impact.

We have modified the previous version of the paper extensively to align it with
the criteria for the Competition Section; in particular we explain in detail the
relevance of the library for competitions and how it facilitates the evaluation
of different approaches in a competitive setting. The part of the paper that
provides an experimental evaluation of different approaches on the library data
has been greatly extended and can be used as a ``blueprint'' for future
competitions.

As this submission will be evaluated according to different criteria than the
previous one, we do not give a detailed list of the reviewers concerns and how
we addressed them thoroughly. Nevertheless, we have taken a lot of the feedback
we have received on board and improved the paper substantially. We would be
happy to provide such a detailed list if conducive to the review process.

\closing{Sincerely yours,}

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